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To: charlief who wrote (11279)	9/29/2000 9:37:48 PM
From: Gus	Respond to of 17183

The Memex Pages Just before the dawn of the digital computer age, as the rapidly growing volume of printed information started to overload human storage capacities, Vannevar Bush published his landmark essay, "As We May Think." Today, it is widely cited as the inspiration for the World Wide Web. In his essay, Bush envisioned the "Memex," a memory extension device serving as a large repository of data that could be instantly retrieved through associative links: "Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores and consult the record of the race." The advent and rapid proliferation of the computer exacerbated the problem of information overload that had alarmed Bush and highlighted further the need for better thinking: having tools and methods for sifting through information, identifying fiction and myth, not getting carried away by fads and fashions, and being informed by history and guided by facts. We are what we remember, we act as we think. In these pages, we will strive to provide links to sound research and analysis: the proper gathering of facts, tools for their organization and classification, and the application of methodologies and theories "without prejudice or resentment." emc.com